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The blog is called ten percent because of what Kurt Vonnegut wrote when remembering Susan Sontag - She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.-

And I'm writing it because I need the therapy and I lust for world domination.

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Peoples’ World Referendum on Climate Change

18 January, 2010 — RickB

In a January 5 statement, Bolivian President Evo Morales called on “the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders … scientists, academics, lawyers and governments that want to work with their citizens to the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights”.

The conference will be held over April 20-22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Morales said that “climate change is a product of the capitalist system”. He noted “the failure of the Copenhagen Conference caused by countries called ‘developed’, that fail to recognize the climate debt they have with developing countries, future generations and Mother Earth”.

As well as analysing the structural causes of climate change and developing concrete measures to tackle it, Morales said the conference would help organise his proposal for a “Peoples’ World Referendum on Climate Change” and develop a plan for a Climate Justice Tribunal.

Meh. Anthropogenic Global Warming has suffered a crisis of credibility of immense proportions in the past weeks. I started blogging it Dec 4 at Blogger – Dec 1 at My Opera. A tie-in with an article on the NPT and using it to harass those trying to reassure their neighbours about WMD via a fixed propaganda position forced me to start looking around. Quickly a science blogger fed me enough into to get me going : and Climategate blew up at the same time.
Global Research.ca and CFACT should convince you I have not overstated the situation…which has had many other news items added to the pile.

Is their position there is no climate change, or that there is but it isn’t down to humans? And thus can we mitigate it or not? What is the point of it being propaganda as all the real (as opposed to carbon trading etc) solutions impact the powerful?

Position would overstate the situation. There is no consensus. Copenhagen was effectively boycotted by small nations seeing a tax scam to further hobble poor nations in the offing. The basic hypocrisy of that says volumes about how seriously it isn’t taken.